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The Infrastructure Services Group is seeking an Energy and Power Discipline Leader. This is an exciting opportunity to support the growth of CDM Smith’s energy and power service offerings. This position calls for subject matter expertise and thought leadership around electrical resiliency and redundancy, electrification, electric vehicles/fleet, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, distributed energy resources, microgrids, and battery technologies, as well as expertise and knowledge of renewable energy technologies. The person in this role focuses on helping federal, state, regional, and local clients across all modes to define and execute project opportunities. The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience in developing concepts, strategy, tactical processes, and be able to design and implement electrification integration into changing grid operations and landscapes.
Critical to this role is a passion for, and experience in distributed energy resources, microgrids, electric vehicles (EVs), and renewable energy.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead and direct the development of analysis, evaluation, design, and development of approaches and processes in support of electric vehicle fleet adoption by clients and customers.
- Provide electrification and renewable energy advisory and design support services to clients nationwide (federal, state, municipal, transit, school, and commercial customers), including business modeling, financial planning, planning for operations, advising on program development, design, and implementation, advising on market trends, and quantifying opportunities.
- Ability to educate and provide intel to internal leaders and teams on new policies, funding opportunities for electrification.
- Lead qualitative and quantitative analysis, including financial modeling, cost-benefit analyses, and evaluation of incentives.
- Champion R&D initiatives related to green/electrification/renewable energy to support emerging trends and client needs.
- Lead cross-functional and multi-disciplinary teams in developing and implementing complex strategic efforts.
- Be both a seller and a doer, with the ability to help clients navigate new areas, while having a strong grasp on where we are going in the mobility space.
- Working within a matrix structure, collaborating with other practices and initiatives across the firm, to advance this evolving discipline.
- Collaborate with and mentor technical staff at varying levels.
- Collaborate with researchers, academics, vendors, and other stakeholders, including industry peers, system integrators, technology experts, and clients, as well as end use customers.
- Lead webinars and provide technical luminescence activities to promote disciplines goals and initiatives.
- Support Transformative Growth Areas (TGAs) related to power for data centers, clean energy and decarbonization, and municipal and campus-scale grid modernization and reliability.
Critical to this role is a passion for, and experience in distributed energy resources, microgrids, electric vehicles (EVs), and renewable energy.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead and direct the development of analysis, evaluation, design, and development of approaches and processes in support of electric vehicle fleet adoption by clients and customers.
- Provide electrification and renewable energy advisory and design support services to clients nationwide (federal, state, municipal, transit, school, and commercial customers), including business modeling, financial planning, planning for operations, advising on program development, design, and implementation, advising on market trends, and quantifying opportunities.
- Ability to educate and provide intel to internal leaders and teams on new policies, funding opportunities for electrification.
- Lead qualitative and quantitative analysis, including financial modeling, cost-benefit analyses, and evaluation of incentives.
- Champion R&D initiatives related to green/electrification/renewable energy to support emerging trends and client needs.
- Lead cross-functional and multi-disciplinary teams in developing and implementing complex strategic efforts.
- Be both a seller and a doer, with the ability to help clients navigate new areas, while having a strong grasp on where we are going in the mobility space.
- Working within a matrix structure, collaborating with other practices and initiatives across the firm, to advance this evolving discipline.
- Collaborate with and mentor technical staff at varying levels.
- Collaborate with researchers, academics, vendors, and other stakeholders, including industry peers, system integrators, technology experts, and clients, as well as end use customers.
- Lead webinars and provide technical luminescence activities to promote disciplines goals and initiatives.
- Support Transformative Growth Areas (TGAs) related to power for data centers, clean energy and decarbonization, and municipal and campus-scale grid modernization and reliability.